From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:19:08 -0700 Message-ID: <7d3530220907281119r75734c9boa41d391fd6ebd58f@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Unix Weenie Newsreader Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3051f46a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ever wish you had more GUI programs on Plan 9 to show off to your friends? Do you think Mothra represents the very pinnacle of UI design? Then have I got a program for you... I've spent the last day or so whipping up a quick libpanel application to read USENET via nntpfs. You can read newsgroups (not threaded, yet) and post messages (no followups yet), all from the comfort of a program that wouldn't look too out of place in any fashionable UNIX establishment. Screenshots at http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/uwn.png The source is available in /n/sources/contrib/john/uwn.tgz John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba